A few of No.2 Commando who made it back after Operation Chariot
[Photo courtesy of Tim Huelin, grandson of Bert Dixon No.2 Cdo].
Survivors from MLs 156 and 446, Seaton Barracks, Plymouth, 29th March 1942.
Assuming 3 rows all left to right:
Front row (5 men all lying down): 1. Cpl. A. Smith (1 tp); 2. Pte. Len Scully (1tp); 3. Fus. Eddie Tucker (6tp); 4. L/Sgt. Roy Bellringer (1tp); 5. L/Cpl. Ivor Bishop (1tp)
Middle row (7 men): 1. L/Sgt. Alex McClair (2tp); 2. L/Cpl. William Watt (6tp - kia 6th Aug 1943); 3. Pte Tom Everett (RAMC 2 Cdo; 4. Capt. Mike Barling (RAMC 2 Cdo); 5(in duffle coat). Pte Jim Newell (1tp); 6(in duffle coat). L/Cpl. Stanley Stevenson (2tp); 7. n/k.
Rear row (8 men):1. n/k; 2. Cpl. Reg. Fursse(6tp); 3. L/Cpl. Jack Webb (RAMC 2tp 2 Cdo); 4. L/Cpl. John Dawson (6tp); 5. L/Cpl. George Ewens (3tp); Cpl. Jim Prescott (6tp); 7. L/Cpl. Dominic Cobelli (1tp); 8. Gdsm. H.C. 'Taff' Lloyd (6tp).
+ 2 men looking out of the window: n/k
(There is a slightly different and smaller version of this photo with one man, shown here middle row no.7, who is missing in Jim Dorrian's book Storming St Nazaire.
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